Rising Everytime We Fall
“Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you will help them become what they are capable of becoming."
You Will Be Heard
Psychological, interpersonal, social and biological elements are all part of the eating disorder origin.
Life Time, Not Gym Time
Eight months into recovery and you find yourself, in so many ways, so much farther ahead than ever before.
BElieve in YOUrself : One Step At a Time
I’ve made up my mind about how to keep moving forward in my recovery: one step at a time.
Enough of the Fun House: Transform Your Optical Illusion
As we mature, we’re given the tools to deal with adversity.
Eating Disorders: The Path to Whole-Person Healing
Though we all have unique human experiences, with emotional challenges that are manifested through a variety of conditions and circumstances, what we all share is a fundamental emotional truth that lies at the very heart of PBS’ This Emotional Life series.
Body Mass Confusion
On the heels of fashion week comes National Eating Disorders Awareness Week, February 21-27.. That certainly sounds like a contradiction, one week beautiful fashions hung, in most cases, on extremely beautiful but overly thin women and teens.
24: Birthday Celebration? Or Counter-ED Operation?
It was really hard for me, although I liked the fact that I was losing weight, I hated who I was.
Drew Westen, Ph.D.
Dr. Westen received his B.A. at Harvard University, an M.A. in Social and Political Thought at the University of Sussex (England), and his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology at the University of Michigan, where he subsequently taught for six years. For several years he was Chief Psychologist at Cambridge Hospital and Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School. His major areas of research are personality disorders, eating disorders, psychotherapy effectiveness, adolescent psychopathology, political psychology, and the interface of psychodynamics and neuroscience.
Dr. Westen is the author of...
Success: When it Becomes an Inexhaustible Endeavor
"If you spend too much time polishing your image, you’ll eventually tarnish your character and be an unhappy man.”